A Literary History of New EnglandLehigh University Press, 1988 - 362 páginas This examination of the literary expression of New England from 1620 to the mid-twentieth century traces the evolution of religious thought and belief as well as major reform movements. Attention is given to influential, though little-known writers. |
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... town of Westfield at the foot of the Berkshire Hills . There he served as pastor and physician until his death in ... town's preoccupation with survival during King Philip's War . The town did survive the Indians and other hardships to ...
... town of Westfield at the foot of the Berkshire Hills . There he served as pastor and physician until his death in ... town's preoccupation with survival during King Philip's War . The town did survive the Indians and other hardships to ...
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... towns had been governed by town meetings , in which all voters would participate in passing local ordinances , levying taxes , and electing town officers , from selectmen to hog reeve . Like John Adams , Dwight believed that town ...
... towns had been governed by town meetings , in which all voters would participate in passing local ordinances , levying taxes , and electing town officers , from selectmen to hog reeve . Like John Adams , Dwight believed that town ...
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... town , attending town meetings , gardening , serving on the school committee . His presence in Concord attracted others , so that the town for a time was one of the literary centers of the nation . But to Emerson there was more in ...
... town , attending town meetings , gardening , serving on the school committee . His presence in Concord attracted others , so that the town for a time was one of the literary centers of the nation . But to Emerson there was more in ...
Contenido
Preface | 9 |
The Sacred Bond and the Lords Remembrancers | 15 |
Cotton Mather and Puritan Sermons | 28 |
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Otras 19 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
Adams Alcott American Anne Bradstreet authors beauty Beecher Boston Bradford Bradstreet Bryant Calvinism Calvinist century character Christian church colonial Concord Connecticut conversion Cotton Mather culture death described divine doctrine Dwight early edited Edwards Edwin Arlington Robinson elect Elizabeth Palmer Peabody Emerson Emily Dickinson England England town essay farm father fiction Freeman Frost God's Greenfield Hill Harvard Hawthorne Hawthorne's Henry Holmes Houghton Howells human Ibid intellectual James Jewett John Jonathan Edwards Journal later literary literature lived Longfellow Lowell Margaret Fuller marriage married Massachusetts Melville Mifflin mind minister moral nature novel persons Phelps poems poet poetry prose published Puritan reader religion religious Robinson Romance rural Sarah Orne Jewett Scarlet Letter Sedgwick sense sermon soul spiritual story Stowe theology Thoreau thought town tradition transcendentalism transcendentalists truth Tyler Unitarian University Press Vermont verse village Whittier Wilkins Freeman William woman women writing wrote York
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Early American Nature Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia Daniel Patterson Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |